Safety milk bottle holder



' April 16, 1940.

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E. KosEN SAFETY MILK BOTTLE HOLDER l Filed Feb. 5, 1958 1'2 10j/rfi? 7 A1 .00 l /l/ffaf 1 A i l@ w April '16, 1940.

Hmmm MMV umm 1 u u E. KOSEN SAFETY MILK BOTTLE HOLDER Filed Feb. 5, 1938""fm n"A 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR 'ruffn Haren ATTO R N EVpPatestedvApr.16,1949 l 7 t 19u49 2,197,149 SAFETYMILK BOTTLE nomen IErwin Kosen,` New York,` N.- Y. v Application February 5,1938, serial10.188351 s claims. teresa-41a 'Y y l Myinvention relates toimprovements in the gularly Shaped protuberance or nose I1, -slotteddevices; for delivering milk bottles, and it is the at its center, as atI8, for the reception `f a 100pprincipal object of my @invention tolprovide `a shaped 'member I9 :secured to therear face of the safety milkbottle holder adapted to be readily `Carp fol' the reception 0f thelbottle neck and s attached to any building. and. securelynoiding mouth2l, as illustrated in Fis. 2. This cap is the milk bottle after itsdelivery by the milkman turnable `about a pin 22 passed transverselyagainst theft, until released from its holder-by through the nose `l'Iand the longitudinal slot in the householder. member I9. At its rear themember I9 has formed vAnother objectof my'invention is 'the provision.therewith a depression or socket 23 for engagel0 of va safety milkbottleholder of comparatively ment by apawl '24i pivoted, as at 25, to asliding 10 simple and therefore inexpensive construction, member 26,said pawl has a tooth-like projection yet durable and highly eflicientin operation. 2d" on ,itsv shank, the outer curved face of whichAfurther object of myinvention is the provision serves to facilitate theturning movement of of a safety milk bottle holder adapted to be readilymember 99, and to hold the pawl 24 in position UNITED .STATES PATENTorme k'il installed without necessitating material changes when the capand ybottleare released.' The sliding 1l `ony the building, and a holderwhich can conmember is vertically displaceable in the ribdeveniently beduplicated to hold two or l more pression, and a spring 21 woundintermediate 'GS l bottles. y ends about the 'pivot pin 25 'engages withone end A still further object of my invention is the the'sliding member26, and with 4its other end the v20 provision of a safety `milk bottledelivery device pawl and hasfth'e'tendency to press said pawl 20 y lequipped with novel and improved means adapted into engagementwith vthedepression 23. Member to be locked bythe rnilkman upon delivery of a 26is -llji'igitudinally slotted, and is formed near bottle and to beunlocked from the inside only its upper end with an eye 28 equipped withinner by a simple operation. l p teethor a rack part 29 adapted to beengaged 25 My safety milk bottle holder is readily adaptable by a pinionor gear 36 on a cross pin or spindle 3| 25 for the display ofappropriate advertisements or intermediate the ends thereof extendingthrough thelike. the slidingmember 26 and provided at its outer Theseand other objects and advantages lof my end with a head 32 located inthe inner depression invention will become more fully apparent as the inrib I Land between said head 32 and the outer y` description thereofproceeds, and will then be face o'f lgear 30 a spring 33 is wound aboutthe 30 more specifically. defined in the appended claims. spindle 3l tohold'the' gear 3!! in engagement with In the accompanying drawingsforming a matethe rack part 29. The inner end of thek spindle rial partof this disclosure: v l 3| has attached thereto by` means of the setscrew Fig. 1v is an outer front elevation offa safety 34 an operatinghead or knob 35, the inner faceof 35 milk bottle holder constructedaccording tomy which is circular and provided with a lower de- 35 l.

invention. pression 36 and an upper `depression 36 'spaced Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section through the same less than 180 apart, onecorresponding to lthe on` line 2-2 of Fig. 1,"i1lustratin`g ragmentarilyengaging position of socket 23 and pawl 24 and a bottle in the incipientstate `of delivery.. one for the disengaging position of these elements,40 Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig.` 2 showing the and both forengagement by the projection 31 on 40 holder collapsed after removalof abottle.,` a disc 38 held against the inner face of the door Fig. 4 is across-section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3. by meansof the screw bolt I3 and ascrew 39. A

Fig. 5 is an inner view of a-holder for the delip 40 on the rib II"limits the downward move,- livery of two milk bottles, seen in thedirection of ment of the cap under the weight of a bottleheld p thearrows 5-5 of Fig. 6. in said cap by the engagement ofthe cap ilange 45Fig. 6 is a longitudinalsection on line 6-'6 ofr 4I`under the bead 42 ofthe bottle neck. Fig'. 5. 1 In Figs. 5 and n6 I have shown my device forAs illustrated in Figs. 1 toe', a frame I0 having the simultaneousdelivery of two bottles, and the i a longitudinally extending mediansomewhat eleconstruction illustrated in these figures differs vated ribII on its outer face, isv adapted to be from the construction shown inFigs. l to 4 simply 50 secured to a door I2 or the .like by means of thein the arrangement of a flange 43 of the upper i screws I3, I4engaging'with their threaded ends rib I2" `with the shoulder 44 formedat the upper similarly threaded lugs I5,"I6'within the depresend of thelower rib I2', and the extension 26' sion in `the rib Il. Intermediateits ends, the of thesliding member 26 equipped with a pawl rib II hasformed therewith a substantially trian- 24', and connected to the lowerpart'of sliding 55 member 26 as indicated at A1&5 and 46. All otherparts are identically constructed as described above with respect to theillustrations Figs. 1 to 4. In operation the milkman raises cap 20 YfromFig. 3 position, inserts the bottle neck, and slides will be rotatedback to relower the slide and restore the pawl to bottle lockingposition this being indicated by reengagement of depression v136' withprojection 31.

It will be clear that I may attach any'num'ber of such holders to a dooror vthe like :as indicated in Figs. and 6, so as to lallow thedeliveryand securing lof any desired number of bottles 'at a time.

It will be understood vthat :I have 'described-and shown :the preferredforms of my invention "as a few examples of the many .'possibleways 'toprac' tically construct the same either inzthe identical form or makesuch changes insits general farrangement Vand in the. constructiono-fits minor details as `come within `the scope Aof Ithe appended claimswithout departure vfrom Vthe spirit of lmy invention kand ItheVprinciples involved.

Having thus Ydescribed -my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is: i

1. A safety milk bottle `holder comprising va frame adapted rto besecured to a building, `havingl a lperforated .and slotted rib having -anose and 'aj lip, a movable :caprturningfabout a cross pin on `saidnose, a loop-.shaped vmember on said cap in the loop of which said :pinengages to allow aA slanting `out yand inwardmovement `of said cap andturning-.of the fsame to .receive va bottle neckand :hold the :samebetween 1said :cap

.frame in the Yopposite gaging lip.

and lip, a, means to lock the said loop-slriapedv member in its inwardposition against movement towards the outside to hold said cap and lipinengagement with thek bottle neck, and `means to release said lockingmeans from the inside of a building to allow a Aturning of the cap -awayfrom said lip to release the bottle.

2. In a safety milk bottle holder as described,

a frame adapted to be secured to a building, a:

rib yformed withsaid frame `,on its outside and having a depressiononitsinsidaa slotted nose formed with said rib, a lip formed beneathsaid nose, a cross-pin on said nose, acap turnably attached on said pinto slide into and out of saidv frame, lsaid cap and lip engaging thebead of the milk bottle to securely hold the same in its inclinedposition, means to lock the cap in :this position .andlmeans to releasesaid*l locking li means ,from the inside of a house to 'free theybottle. i l l f 3. In a'safety milk bottle holder Y:is-described,

-a :frame adaptedto be secured to ;a^-building `and havingV an innerlongitudinally 4,ezdsending rei cess and a bottleneck bead engaging lip,a slotf ted movable frame in said recess, ra spring lcon#r l trolledpawl pivoted vin lsaid movable frame, and

a-rack in an upper eyelet o f said movable frame,

a gear in mesh with said rackon a spindle to` .move said frame upwardlywhen `turned by its knob .in one` direction and downwardly when saidspindle is turned in the ,opposite direction,

bottle neck receiving-cap having a slotted loop memberslidablyvandturnably held tol said first y frame and adaptedy to beengaged bysaid pawl tol lock said cap in its bottle retaining position.v

when said movable'frame is in one position, and

.to kbe released by said pawlfrom bottle flocking position upon themovement of said movable direction' to a1lowarelease of the-bottle .fromthe cap and bead len- .ERWIN Koeien.

